Social media success stories for IBEW
Nice little video roundup of some IBEW locals in the States, who are using MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in their campaigns. Hat tip AFLCIOnow
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2009 in union blogging
Looking over this year’s TIGMOO.co.uk league table of UK union bloggers, it’s clear that the last year has seen a lot of new activity. Now over a third of the top 25 union blogs are new entries for 2009. Union and political blogs in the USA continue to point the way, with insider commentary from …
Congress Voices: Social media mashup at #TUC09
Just arrived in Liverpool, ready for this year’s TUC Congress (www.tuc.org.uk/congress2009), which is worryingly my eighth one (I hope there’s some kind of medal). I’m pretty chuffed with some work I’ve been doing on a separate site Congress Voices, which aims to collate social media coverage of Congress, linking people here at the event with …
Is it 2009 already? New TIGMOO blogging guide
Just finished compiling this year’s TIGMOO.co.uk Guide to Union Blogging, just in time for Congress 2009. If you saw last year’s, you’ll know what to expect from it. I’ve spent a few hours adding up all the posts, comments, Alexa traffic estimates and Google inbound links, and predicted a top 25 blogs from the 120 …
15,000 YouTubers can’t be wrong
Yay! One month ago, I uploaded a video to YouTube, around 4 hours before we had to suddenly wake up to take my then pregnant wife to hospital. In the intervening month, John 2.2 has grown by 2 lbs 5oz, but the film has grown by 15,000 views. Not bad for a few minutes messing …
On different types of digital divide…
So we’re all familiar with the idea of the digital divide. In context of unions, around 70% of UK union members have access at home or work – most (but not all by any stretch) on broadband. This number is growing slightly all the time, but there’s a big chunk of the population that don’t …